Australian Film Commission Movies

Australia, 1867. In the bleak high country, a young black tracker and his elderly sergeant follow the trail of a killer, a traditional Indigenous man.

Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teaching these kids about their traditions. Aboriginal...

Sydney, a city turning itself upside down to get ready for the year 2000. The Olympic Year.

Della, a 45-year-old wanna-be, coulda-been jazz singer and her lover, Dale, a 23 year old small time criminal, are in the final stages of their dysfun...

Documents Independence Day of Papua New Guinea on September 16, 1975, comparing the pageantry of local celebrations with the official ceremony in the...

Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the cou...

On a wintry bay, far from home, a young child witnesses something truly unexpected.

An examination of occultism as practiced in different parts of the world.

An account of events in Queensland from 1959 to 1988 as disclosed by the Fitzgerald inquiry. Queensland had become as close to a police state as anyth...

A young firebrand Aboriginal man is forced to confront his spirituality when he is beaten by the police.

In the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, a widowed father expects his only son to follow in his footsteps. Darra Adam Khel is home to the ethn...

Rachel and Nick are your model, contemporary relationship. They're young, hip, creative and independent. In the end, they can't escape the basic diffe...

When a man's mother fails to pick him up from the supermarket, he decides to walk home. What should have been a brief stroll, soon becomes a nightmari...

A businessman in white shirt and tie drives alone on an isolated country road. He swerves for a passing truck and the result is a blowout. As he's cha...

Three women appear connected in this short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows,...

The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.

The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.

A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life.

Three wordless rituals: birth, between, and rebirth. A woman lies at the bottom of a swimming pool, alone. The camera pans her body. She starts to ris...

Short directed by Bruce Petty.